Competition: we've teamed up with Page One Publishing to give away five copies of Jyanzi Kong's new architecture book, Geometry of the Unconscious.

Geometry of the Unconscious: an Uncertain Truth in Architecture examines our perceptions of architecture within varying contexts.

The 172-page paperback compiles theoretical texts accompanied by over 150 illustrations and photos of projects.

Jyanzi Kong has held teaching positions at universities across the US, Singapore and China.

This competition is now closed. Five winners will be selected at random and notified by email. Winners’ names will be published in a future edition of our Dezeenmail newsletter and at the bottom of this page. Dezeen competitions are international and entries are accepted from readers in any country.

The experience of seeing space in its relationship with matter is inherent in the gap between the visible and invisible in architecture. This book examines architecture where the complexities of chance, atmosphere, situation and circumstance are amalgamated into geometry of the unconscious. From this, new architecture can be realised not only based upon accepted norms of modernity but also upon cultural context and origin. Such geometry is an endpoint that involves a continuity of perception, conception and action.

About Jyanzi Kong

Jyanzi Kong began teaching at the Department of Architecture, Cornell University. Subsequently, he taught at the College of Architecture, University of Houston and Montana State University.

Since 1985, he taught at the School of Architecture, National University of Singapore and the Raffles Institute of Design, DongHua University in Shanghai. He has served as Guest Critic at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University and several American schools of architecture, including SCI-ARC. He has presented papers in various international conferences including the Union of International Architects in Barcelona, 1996.

His professional practice covered both sides of the Atlantic. He was Architect-in-Design with the office of O M Angers in Cologne, Germany, while on the American Coast he worked with several architectural firms. Jyanzi conducts architectural explorations in design studios and lectures on contemporary topics related to architecture and its urban determinants.

Congratulations to the winners! Jonathan Liljeblad and Sheena Garcia in the USA, Stacey Verhaak and Tan Hong Joo in the UK and Karolina Jankowska in Poland all won copies of Geometry of the Unconscious.